Girls: Lena Dunham’s HBO comedy-drama to end after Season 6

The ground-breaking show about a friendship group in New York has an end in sight
End of an era: Lena Dunham's series Girls is due to finish in 2017
Ben Travis6 January 2016

Lena Dunham’s landmark HBO comedy-drama series Girls is set to end following its sixth season.

The show, which follows a group of female friends as they navigate through their 20s in New York, is about to air Season 5 in the USA.

While HBO have not officially announced that Season 6 will be Girls’ last, sources have confirmed the end of the series to The Hollywood Reporter.

Created, written by, and starring Lena Dunham, Girls broke ground when it debuted in 2012, and was hailed as a series that successfully portrayed the ‘millennial’ generation.

While it still generates a lot of discussion, the series has seen diminishing viewer figures as it has continued.

Speaking in September, Dunham hinted that the show may only have two seasons left, and would end as the creator left her 20s and entered her 30s.

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“I started working on this show when I was 23, and I’m going to be 30 so it kind of feels right that this show kind of sandwiched my 20s and then I go off into the world,” she said.

Girls has also helped launch the career of Adam Driver, who starred as villain Kylo Ren in Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

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